StarCraft II Beta

[Wolf]

So broken right now :( At least it's up on the motd that they're trying to fix it.

[Margalis]

How the hell do you add a friend now if you only know their in-game name? Is it even possible?

[K9]

You have to make a custom game and add them by interacting with their portrait I think.

Yes, it's fucking stupid.

[Ironwood]

In other news :  Still fucked.

Managed to have one game, but my ally and I were overrun by thousands of fucking zerglings, so it doesn't count.

If you pull Zerg and (anything) against two zerg, you're pretty much going to get speedlinged.

[Mosesandstick]

Is the game working now?

[Wolf]

nope. Played a couple of 2v2s, decided I'm golden, started a 1v1 placement match - got dropped with a 160vs80 supply lead :) Wanted to try ultras :(

[Thrawn]

So previously in this thread I mentioned how I got placed in Gold and felt it was a little high for me, sure enough after about 10-15 games it knocked me down to silver.  Just finished my new placement matches.

 

[Mosesandstick]

Isn't platinum the new gold?

[Malakili]

Isn't platinum the new gold?

Yeah, I don't know exactly how it did it.

It seems like it would be stupid if they simply made everything go up one level, I got the impression it was like this

Old Leagues - New Leagues
Copper -> Bronze
Bronze -> Bronze
Silver -> Silver
Gold -> Gold
Lower 50% plat -> Plat
Upper 50% plat -> Diamond

The idea being that Copper and Bronze weren't different enough, and the top end of Platinum is better than the rest of Plat.   Keep in mind, I made this up and I just think that is how they did it because if they simply shifted everyone up one division it means absolutely nothing other than name changes.

[K9]

So previously in this thread I mentioned how I got placed in Gold and felt it was a little high for me, sure enough after about 10-15 games it knocked me down to silver.  Just finished my new placement matches.

 

You should have done like I did and just failed through all your placement matches. Admittedly I did only see one played to the finish, and the one I lost was due to my opponent getting kicked. Sooooo....

The weather is too nice for computer gaming this weekend anyway, so I'm not complaining.

[Mosesandstick]

Dammit K9, don't jinx the weather.

[bhodi]

Because if they simply shifted everyone up one division it means absolutely nothing other than name changes.

This is all it really is. Name changes.

[Astorax]

I bet it's cause all the bnet kiddies didn't know wtf Bronze was.

[K9]

Dammit K9, don't jinx the weather.

Sorry!

[Thrawn]

I see game are still locking up, just when I was going to win a game by building nothing but zerglings too. 

[Rasix]

Got into Silver.   Last game was a bit of a joke, and I think the guy was just putting me on or something.  He built a bunch of cannons and like 5 void rays.  He was talking shit the entire time, and I killed him easily with like 3k minerals in reserve because of the shock of how bad the guy was killed my macro. Lost one game due to having to quit out quick to handle something with my son.  And actually won against a decent protoss player via Thor blob.  He got me a few time with blinks and his zealots had speed, but I had an economy advantage and faith in THOR.

Seeing a lot of Protoss and they're mostly eating my lunch.  Stalker blobs are just fucking menacing.

edit: only went 2 and 3. Both of my legit losses were to "gl hf" types.

[Mosesandstick]

Is it working now? Still don't want to join in till things are ok  

No matter how many times I say "gl hf" at the beginning of a game I don't seem to get better.

[Rasix]

IT FRIGHTENS ME.  I should start responding in flowery prose.  Throw them off. 

4 games with no lag 1v1.  One game lagging horribly v. the retard.

[Dtrain]

Got into Silver.   Last game was a bit of a joke, and I think the guy was just putting me on or something.  He built a bunch of cannons and like 5 void rays.  He was talking shit the entire time, and I killed him easily with like 3k minerals in reserve because of the shock of how bad the guy was killed my macro.

I had pretty much the same thing yesterday afternoon. Guy bottled up tight as Terran, even after I tested his defences and got wiped out. In an act of despiration (and not having seen anything more than siege tanks and bunkers at his entrance ramp,) I promptly kicked out a few void rays (+whatever the protoss air to air is,) and parked them over his minerals. He had nothing to counter it with, and I wiped out his whole base as he lagged the game into an unplayable mess. Maybe it was the same guy, and I convinced him of the awesome and frightening power of the void ray.

I'm noob as all heck though - I don't feel bad about trying something stupid to learn how it works. I basically played the AI 1x, decided it would be no fun to learn against, and jumped into competitive matches. I get rocked hard sometimes, especially considering that everyone is re-qualifying for their ladders right now, but no biggie. Win some, lose... a lot. Whatever.

[K9]

Have they fixed the disconnects?

[Thrawn]

Have they fixed the disconnects?

Inquiring minds want to know, I mostly gave up on it until I quit having odd freezes.

[kidder]

They seem to be fixed.  Had to try a few times to get logged in, but I played four games with no disconnects or interruptions waiting on people who are timing out. 

They still have the front end message saying that they are working on the issues people are having.

[Ironwood]

No.

They fucking haven't.

[bhodi]

No, this patch is pretty much fucked. I'd just wait for the next.

[Ironwood]

Indeed.

Trust me, there's nothing more personally disturbing TO ME than having your main killed and then Bnet dropping you.  Because it makes you look like a total pussy that just gave up.

Not cool.

Not playing until I get a better patch that A - Works and B - Allows me to, you know, play with friends.

I realise, as ever, this is beta, but COME ON.

[Wolf]

Yeah, a pretty major fuck up. I think there won't be any patches before they close it next monday, though.

[Ironwood]

Oh.

Shit.

[Phry]

Anyone else having graphics problems after the last patch?  it feels way sluggish.

[Ironwood]

Last patch was awful.  I hadn't noticed till last night (when it was actually stable and I could play 3 games in a row) but the sound effects on my bnet screen is gone.  The actual sound is there since you can hear the things in the background, but the countdown for a new game and the searching sound effects just ain't there.

I really have to question WHY ON EARTH the last patch before pulling the plug on the Beta was such a fucking shambles.

[KallDrexx]

So Blizzard can give a miracle patch on release day!   

[Wolf]

yep, no sound in bnet menus it's a "known issue". At least the game is working these days :)

[Ironwood]

Sure, but I've still lost all my damn friends.

 

[Wolf]

Absolutely annoying no doubt about that :) the current system in place is retarded and I hope they don't go with that at release

[Rasix]

Played some games, man I got bad without playing for like only 3 days.

Every Protoss I've played against has stolen my geysers.  Last one tried to proxy pylon me.  Luckily he like.. forgot to expand or macro at all.   The M3 blob with a raven spotter tore him asunder.

I seriously can't macro for the life of me once my resources start rolling in.  I wish I would have gotten into bronze where I could just work on that.  I sit there with like 2K minerals and gas and just all of the sudden forget how to make units.. heh.

BTW, what counters carriers other than "don't let them get to carriers".  They seriously destroyed a bunch of Thors like they were nothing at all.

[K9]

Stimmed marines will tear through carriers like anything. You probably want an advantage of about 4 marines per carrier though, depending on the blob. That said, I always see carriers as one of the worst investments an opponent can make.

Vikings are good against carriers too. Also ghosts for EMP. A raven's point defense drone would probably help too.